argggh. ok. i (thought i) followed peter grainge's
merged
help on a simple merged webhelp project, but am having a devil
of a time producing the desired result, and updating the published
files to show what's been merged (e.g., the child projects).

the top-most level of the directory structure i'm using is
called fruits. within that i have ~main and ~sub (with tildes).
within ~sub
i have two child projects: apples and oranges.

when i publish, the resulting toc shows (repeats) the parent
(what's in ~main, not the child projects), and when i look in
explorer, each child project shows the same directory structure as
the parent (including the mergedProjects directory). i'm using
lowercase file names when i generate, and even though i've
specified each, e.g., c:\fruits\testPublish\mergedProjects\apples
and c:\fruits\testPublish\mergedProjects\oranges, the publishing
result shows that the child server details are going to the root
directory (c:\fruits\testPublish).

what the heck? (and btw, i can't get this to work properly
using peter's demo file either.) pls help correct the error of my
ways.

i believe that i have created the webhelp generation and
publish directories for each project correctly, but it's still not
working.

the master project (fruits) is set to generate output
(webhelp) to C:\help_projects\fruits\!SSL!\testGenerate\index.htm
and publish in C:\help_projects\fruits\testPublish, while the two
child projects are set to generate output to
C:\help_projects\fruits\!SSL!\testGenerate\mergedProjects\apples
and
C:\help_projects\fruits\!SSL!\testGenerate\mergedProjects\oranges
(respectively) and publish in
C:\help_projects\fruits\testPublish\mergedProjects\apples\ and
C:\help_projects\fruits\testPublish\mergedProjects\oranges\
(respectively).

when i look at explorer, the directory structure shows ~sub
(with tildes) and the two child projects (apples and oranges),
which simply contain the source files (no other RoboHelp published
files), plus a mergedProjects directory, which shows the two child
projects (apples and oranges), each containing fully published
files. (see below for the structure i am seeing.) can someone shed
some light on what i'm missing here? thks.

i was erroneously attempting to generate and publish the
subprojects from the master, even though their files weren't
actually in the project (pane). apparently, i was literally reading
peter's directions, which did not specifically indicate that i
should generate and publish from each individual sub-project. as a
result, i kept getting the master generating and publishing from
within itself.

lol. thanks for the reply. peter, your overall instructions
and summary did help, but it was a struggle that was not initially
clear to me. could be that the queen's english is different than my
good ol' usa english.